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Friday, July 31, 2015

Five on Friday - Christina's Notes

I am linking to Amy's Five on Friday, on her blog "Love Made my Home". This is the last Five on Friday post until 5 September.

Do visit Amy's blog to see what the other participants have to say (after reading mine, of course?).

For the first time I am also linking to Super Mom - No Cape's Stitchery Party.

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It is a sunny morning here as I am typing, and it looks as if we are going to have a lovely warm day.

Apologies to anyone who was expecting to see further pictures of my doll Izzy, however, this is still a craft related post, and I will show you pictures of Izzy soon.

Here are Five Facts about : CHRISTINA'S NOTES

These are photographs of a pouch, made for my mum for Mother's Day, they are from my iPod and despite my having turned them horizontally on our computer file, Blogger decided they should be portrait style!

ONE:

I made this for my Mum as she likes to take her knitting with her when she is out and about, however she kept losing certain items, therefore I decided to make this pouch to hold her pen, notes, measure and wool needle. By chance Mum has since found her scissors and four sock needles fit in very well too! The embroidery was in perlè cottons with scheesha mirrors, french knots, chain stitches and stem stitch. The binding is from a never ending bag of scraps I bought when I first started patchwork. Main fabric is Osnaburgh - my favourite for embroidery!

TWO:

As with all those "quick" projects one invents, this took longer to make than I had imagined, and changed quite considerably along the way.

Mum's knitting notes pouch

Copious notes!

THREE:

Notepad within - main reason for making the pouch!

Main pocket, showing lining and note pad.

FOUR:

I typed the word "pencil" on my computer, found a nice font, enlarged it, printed it and traced the word onto my fabric, along with two pictures from one of Mandy Shaw's embroidery books, ready for stitching. For the ruler I just drew two lines, marked out the actual measurements for stitching. The stitching is in 2 strands of DMC and stem stitch.

3 Pockets on back.

FIVE:

Finished Pouch!

Lastly, to finish off I couldn't resist showing you this bee "getting stuck in"!

There's a Bumblebee getting smothered in pollen in one of
these Hollyhock flowers!

Thank you for visiting, and don't forget to visit Amy's Five on Friday (link at top of page)

Thank you so much for your lovely comment on my blog. You are very talented, I am not a craft person, but I admire those who are talented in crafty skills, I just wish I was one of those people :( The pouch is really lovely and it shows how much it is made with thought as well as much love.

What a gorgeous gift!! It is so pretty and obviously so useful too! You are very talented! Thank you so much for joining in. Glad you remembered there will be no fiving in August, but back in September! Hope that you have a great weekend and a great August too! xx

Thank you Mary Anne, I hope you do! The number of times I have lost my knitting notes and wool needle you would think I'd make one to keep with my knitting too! Oh well, something else for the list....one day. Have a wonderful weekend.

Hi Batbara, this is such a special gift you made you Mom. I wish I had the talen to stitch like you and create such lovely items. I just began to learn needlepoint and so far I'm really enjoying this new hobby. I hope you are having a great weekend.

Hi Chris, I'm so glad you called in. It's great that you have joined Amy's Five on Friday, it is a lovely way to find new friends to visit. I am on my way to see your blog next. I hope you are having a nice weekend.

Hello Mrs Tiggywinkle, so nice of you to drop by. Thank you for your kind comments. I really enjoyed making it and I especially loved stitching the embroidery. It's great for being able to make something individual.

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Hi, I'm Barbara. Welcome to my blog. I live on the edge of the North Downs in Surrey, England, with d.h. and our cute, bossy, chatty lady cat.
This is mostly a stitching blog, but there will be the occasional posts about walks - both country and town.
I hope you will find something you enjoy reading here, and that you will come back and visit me again!